The world is experiencing extreme events and it is no doubt connected to climate change. Right now Europe is enduring an extreme heatwave that experts say is contributing to the tragic wildfires … Continue reading Heatwaves in Europe, Flooding in Asia — The new normal?
The Irish parliament has passed the Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill last July 12, making Ireland the world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels. The bill requires Ireland’s €8bn sovereign fund, … Continue reading Ireland first country to divest from fossil fuels
I realized the Chevening application for 2019-2020 is going to open again soon, and it has reminded me of the long (but very much worth it) road it took for … Continue reading #MyCheveningJourney: Applying, getting accepted, and living the Chevening dream
I was invited to be part of Festival Lampa 2018 in Cesis, Latvia. The climate change stage was organised by Riga Technical University and Climate KIC-Latvia. I did my talk … Continue reading Festival Lampa 2018
As part of my internship, I was asked to do an animation of the five IPCC pathways scenarios. An explainer by Carbon Brief on these scenarios: Over the past few years, … Continue reading GIF: Five shared socio-economic pathways scenarios
Countries have agreed to keep global temperature rise to “well-below 2°C, pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C”. As of writing, 172 countries had submitted their Nationally Determined … Continue reading Without NETs, deep CO2 cuts needed by big country emitters to remain below 2°C goal
Countries have agreed in the Paris Agreement to hold global temperature increase to “well below 2°C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above … Continue reading Mapping sea level rise at 1.5 versus 2 degrees of global warming
[This was a policy brief submitted to our gender and development class in UEA] Fiji, an island country comprised of more than 300 islands and atolls, is one of the … Continue reading Increasing women’s resilience in Fiji through participatory governance
Renee Karunungan 